Trump’s visit to Saudi a ‘turning point’: King Salman

Arab Islamic American Summit on Sunday is planning to establish the Middle East Strategic Alliance by 2018 with focus on their fight against terrorism, counter-piracy and also to protect the region’s waterways and ship routes.

Human rights didn’t go completely unnoticed on Trump’s trip.

“This is not a battle between different faiths, different sects, or different civilizations”, he said. “Instead, we are here to offer partnership – based on shared interests and values”, Trump said.

Trump began his speech by thanking Saudi Arabia for hosting the summit.

Trump’s visit was laden with religious symbolism.

“The U.S. leaders should know that whenever we need a missile test because of a technical aspect, we will test”, he said. “Who can say the region will experience total stability without Iran?” he said. Obama had declined to use the term because he said he didn’t want to connect terrorist groups like the Islamic State to the religion of Islam and said it would unnecessarily anger Arab allies fighting terrorism and alienate Muslims at home.

The announcement came from the World Bank President Jim Yong Kim as the Trump family visited Saudi Arabia. A White House official later said the president did raise women’s rights in his private meetings with Saudi officials, and noted that administration officials broached the topic in their talks in the lead-up to the trip.

During his trip, Trump claimed that Iran is a key sponsor of militant group, an allegation vehemently rejected by Qassemi. In office, he ordered temporary bans on people from several Muslim-majority countries, which have been blocked by courts that ruled they were discriminatory. It was just one of a series of inflammatory statements about one of the world’s major religions that included a call to surveille mosques and a proposal to ban all foreign Muslims from entering the U.S.

Netanyahu played down what has appeared to be a violation of an intelligence-sharing agreement with his country, saying U.S. “Drive them out of your communities”.

He added that Muslim leaders must do more to confront extremism.

Obama called for understanding and acknowledged some of America’s missteps in the region.

Introducing Trump, Saudi King Salman described their mutual foe Iran as the source of terrorism they must confront together. The atmosphere was quite a change from the policies under former President Barack Obama, Keane explained.

Urging countries to deny terrorists space to operate, Trump said, “The first task in this joint effort is for your nations to deny all territory to the foot soldiers of evil.Every country in the region has an absolute duty to ensure that terrorists find no sanctuary on their soil”.

According to the White House, the 70-year-old President hadn’t gotten much sleep. But Trump’s offhand remark was another stark reminder that his troubles at home, including the investigation of his campaign’s ties to Russian Federation and his firing of FBI Director James Comey, have followed him across the ocean.

Others found something positive in the sight of Mr Trump meeting Muslim leaders.

He praised Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, telling him: “You have done a tremendous job under trying circumstances”.

“I agree!” Trump replied, as his advisers and others looking on laughed.

The president then complimented el-Sissi’s choice of footwear: “Love your shoes”.

Trump cut short his program in Saudi Arabia, abruptly skipping an event aimed at highlighting how social media can be used to combat extremism. “Boy, those shoes” after their brief remarks to the media.